Articles for today
Will the Windows iTunes Music Store solve the problems of the music industry? “iTunes for Windows is probably the best Windows application ever written.”
Will MSN win the battle for attention?
Is the Sitefinder dispute really about religion? Is the broadcast flag dispute really about religion?
Comparing the technology-law conflicts in the flag situation and in the wildcard world: you could be optimistic that technology will always win in the end, but won't there be technologies that we collectively will find too harmful to be allowed? and who will make that decision?
More on Sitefinder
I briefly asked my property class today whether streams of mistyped domain names were like wild foxes — or not. If they were puzzled, here is background on the dispute. Today was another fascinating, unprincipled meeting about the Sitefinder service. Here's my take: no one involved publicly in this dispute has a clear idea about what ICANN's powers are or aren't; what a registry service is or isn't; what the scope of the SECSAC's mandate is or isn't; or what on earth to do now.
So it's time for someone to be thoughtful about all this. There are law review articles to be written here! But there are also huge practical holes in understanding that need to be filled.
If the Sitefinder people want to learn about wild foxes, go here.